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Yes, rule elements like the very granular weapon reach and space rules, or weapons versus armor types, from AD&D 1E are simulationist rules.

Honestly, the closest thing to Sharn on screen has been Piltover from Arcane.

A couple very popular examples are Deus Ex and Dishonored. Skyrim is often considered close to an ImSim, moreso than Fallout 4, but many people think it fails at being an ImSim because there are characters you can't kill and situations that must be resolved a specific way. As with all things...

I did not define it because it isn't particularly important to the discussion, except to say that I am not focusing on the definition. GNS stands for Gamist Narrativist and Simulationist and is a TTRPG game theory framework from The Forge something like 20 years ago now. There are some folks...

The other kind of "sim" in video games that I think maps better to TTRPG play are "immersive sims" -- games that give you as many options as possible within the context of the play space and don't require you solve things in any particular way.

Eberron would make a great basis for a show, although I would refer a Clone Wars esque animated series. Did they ever produce an Adventure Path for Eberron? I know there were a couple linked modules in 3.5 era, and there is an AL Eberron season or two, right?

I have started a simulation focused thread for those interested in discussing it further. https://www.enworld.org/threads/what-does-simulation-mean-to-you.716497/

FIRST: This is a + thread, meaning that as we discuss this, we all recognize that we can have differing opinions about what "simulation" means in the context of TTRPGs. SECOND: As the thread title suggests this is about your personal definitions and opinions, not necessarily the S of GNS or...

Always us 2 or 3 tiered stepped save files so that you can at least o back.2 save slots if you run into real.trouble.

I don't think "simulation" must necessarily map to "low power." You can do a simulationist super hero game if you care about how powers interact with the world, and certainly many hard sci-fi games like Traveller have a simulationist bent even when talking about FTL drives and planet wrecking...

I'm pretty sure I was clear in the OP.

Is that a campaign length adventure?

The more people that enter the hobby, the more likely you are to find new players that share your preferences.

In my opinion, the real thing that makes RPGs RPGs isn't "storytelling" but agency -- the ability to do (or try) anything.

Just for fun: You are put in charge of adapting an existing campaign length adventure to prestige television for WotC. It can be any campaign from any edition, but it HAS to be a campaign not just a single adventure (so no Keep on the Borderlands or the orginal Ravenloft. Note that the "short"...

I have met many players who are not interested in "collaborative storytelling." Many want to play a game, plain and simple. I still think the hobby is for them.

Oh, look, it's on sale.

I am only generally aware of that games existence. I have never seen a copy.

The more AP I watch, the less it resembles actually playing an RPG.

The newest episode of the wonderful Our Fake History podcast is diving into hoe Buffalo Bill Cody "invented" the Old West by way of the stories he told about himself and his involvement in major events of the era. This got me to thinking about a potential from for an RPG: instead of the PCs...